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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 394, 4 November 1868, Page 3

Immigrant Girls in Canada. — The Times, of the 4th. of July, has the following :—" A letter we publish elsewhere seems to open a bright prospect for one of the most needy, and perhaps least cared for classes among us. Miss Hye writes to us from Canada, to say that within a few hours of her landing on Canadian soil she has found places for all the girls whom she has taken from England. She left England with a hundred servant girls, and within a fortnight she found herself alone, and free to return to England to repeat the same experiment. Had she taken out three hundred more girls she believes they 'could all have been equally well placed, and her belief is more than confirmed by the accounts in the

Canadian papers. According to'the description in a Toronto journal, instead of Miss Bye having to make any effort to' dispose of her importation, her only difficulty was to avoid having them taken from her by storm. She had no sooner arrived at the Toronto station than a large crowd of citizens gathered outside, and would hardly wait while the girls were at dinner for the distribution of Buch helps. They employed the time in surveying the immigrants, and the result of their inspection did not check their eagerness. When dinner was finished the applicants were so numerous that they could only be admi ted in the order in which their names had been entered on a list, and when 210 had thus been allowed to compete for the services of sixty girls, 150 more of the citizens were still waiting impatiently for the mere chance of one of the girls falling to them. The market, in fact, was entirely in the hands of the girls; and they were able to be so particular in their choice as to reject the service of ladies with red hair. They asked five dollars a month, and in one instance received as much as six. Miss Rye was strict in each case that there should be no misunderstanding of the agreement, and required a specification both of the work and of the wages. In short she could almost make her own terms.'